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Terrorism

Philip Gold, The Washington Times, subtitle: The War of the Ways, NULL Read More ›

Jihadistan Part II: Defending Against It

In our last episode, we considered the problem of “Jihadistan” – the violent, expansionist Islamic fundamentalism that has created an “arc of terror” from North Africa through the Middle East and Central Asia to the Philippines and Indonesia, and which is now firmly established in Europe and North America. This session, what to do about it. Six items here. First Read More ›

Government’s Dangerous Prescription

Drs. Glueck and Cihak, worldnetdaily.com, subtitle: , NULL Read More ›

School Bells or Jail Cells?

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Fiber-Optic Fables

We live in an age of famously embarrassing historical ignorance. Judging by responses given by “Pearl Harbor” moviegoers to knowledge poll queries, quite a few viewers would accept the late John Belushi’s “Animal House” claim that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. One of the grand fictions of telecom history is that the established carriers left fiber innovation to others. One version, given currency by, among others, former Justice Department antitrust chief Anne Bingaman, is that but for federal pro-competition policy by the FCC and AT&T divestiture Judge Harold Greene the fiber-optic revolution would have been delayed. A second version, promoted recently by the American enterprise Institute’s James Glassman, has MCI and Sprint as the pioneers, with MCI led by corporate visionary William McGowan into the fiber future. Read More ›

Darwinism in Denial?

Fifteen years or so ago, “nuclear winter” – the theory that the soot and ash of World War III could end human life by darkening the atmosphere and lowering global temperatures – enjoyed its moment in the shade. As science, nuclear winter contained more errors than my last high school chemistry test, but that didn’t deter its supporters. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton wrote that, even if wrong, nuclear winter “serves us well” as an “idea.” Read More ›

Economic growth options

[From the August 9, 2001 edition of The Washington Times] Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said recently that the economic slowdown might last despite the Fed rate cuts. His comments notwithstanding, there is no reason for us just to sit like toads and wait for some favorable alignment of the stars. We can revive high growth if we so choose. Read More ›

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Organic Farming
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ID as a Theory of Technological Evolution

1. Nature and Art In Book II of the Physics Aristotle remarks, “If the ship-building art were in the wood, it would produce the same results by nature.” Aristotle is here contrasting nature and art. Nature provides the raw materials (here wood); art provides the means for fashioning those materials (here into a ship). For Aristotle, art consists in the Read More ›